NaevaTheRat
@NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org
- Comment on Sydney University academics pursued for speaking out against Gaza atrocities 12 hours ago:
you think total Palestinian casualties are less than 7 thousand?
- Comment on Sydney University academics pursued for speaking out against Gaza atrocities 22 hours ago:
It is impossible to interpret this in good faith. The German government has obvious conflicts and should not be considered representative of international law. It’s as arbitrary as saying “Iran says the IDF eats babies”.
The UN: ohchr.org/…/un-special-committee-finds-israels-wa…
The ICC: www.icj-cij.org/case/192
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 1 day ago:
I am exposed as a hack and a fraud.
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 1 day ago:
Hey that’s nice to say. I saw how much they were replying and assumed they cared, there’s also a certain amount of theatre in online discourse. While it’s nice to imagine that when you write to someone you could change their mind the reality is that is unlikely, however spectators who are less involved might. I care a lot about democracy, I want good discourse on measures I see as antidemocratic. I don’t think parliament will ever implement democracy, but it sure as hell could make it a lot harder to at a future date.
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 1 day ago:
I don’t want to spruke the australian government (frankly I find it fucking infuriating when people dismiss criticisms of this society by going "Yeah but at least we’re not the USA) however our parliaments function quite differently. I would not exactly call them democratic but they are closer to a democracy than the government you are likely familiar with. Unfortunately we don’t have multimember seats in the lower house so you have completely disgusting stuff like the greens getting ~18% of the popular vote but only having like 1/151 seats. I’m sure you can relate to that sort of frustration.
Recently, particularly in the senate which does have multimember seats, minor party influence has been growing. LibLab fucking hate this, so goddamned much. They have pushed through a series of electoral reforms (some decent I will give them that) with the goal of restricting the influence of minor parties. A recent one which disgusts me is requiring a degree of membership in order to run on the ballot as a party and not independents which would require something like running in 6 or 7 seats (keep in mind there are 151 seats overall, that’s a large number) before the members:seats ratio approached the current members:seats ratio of labor. A party with a like 120 year history that runs everywhere.
That’s a completely absurd requirement that absolutely scuttles the ability of an interest group representing say an area of a city from running as a clearly identifiable party.
I am deeply sceptical of their reforms for reasons like this.
- Comment on NSW government to cut off public access to Newcastle harbour ahead of peaceful climate protest 1 day ago:
Sometimes I look at the freedoms we enjoy and how hesitant the governments that claim us are to deploy force and I think “Did this place really use to be a penal colony?”.
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 1 day ago:
Hey so there’s this idea people sometimes react with that if someone who is stupid or evil or whatever has some idea, then the opposite of that idea must be a good idea.
This is not a good way to think. While if you find yourself on the same side of an issue as your political enemies you should probably reflect over whether you’re being manipulated it is not necessarily true that you are.
Clive Palmer opposes this bill sure, he says for various reasons. That doesn’t mean those reasons are bad reasons to oppose the bill, or that the bill is good. LibLab are using the threat of billionaires interferring in elections to try push this through, if they are so confident it is a good bill why are they rushing it through and why do they both agree with it?
It is worth examining how this bill will function and whether the good bits are worth the side effects. LibLab are not champions of democracy, they fucking hate it lmao and they have enormous contempt for the public and minor parties so we should not assume they think this bill will lead to a better democracy.
- Comment on NACC under fire as Commissioner Paul Brereton found guilty of misconduct - Michael West 2 days ago:
Federal Agency Reconnoitering Corruption Examiners
- Comment on Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure 1 week ago:
Labor is certainly trying to stop the rise of the greens.
- Comment on Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure 1 week ago:
Kinda neat, a bit weasely in a few places. Our Lords and Masters stance has always been Palestinian sovereignty under a two state, but usually they vote against or abstain from any UN resolution iirc.
Sign that the anglosphere is turning against the USA on this issue?
- Comment on Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell says he could 'become a terrorist' as far right rhetoric escalates and movement grows 1 week ago:
The cops necessarily lean fash mate. Yeah not all, but they’re statistically a hell of a lot more sympathetic to nazis than like unions or students.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell says he could 'become a terrorist' as far right rhetoric escalates and movement grows 1 week ago:
What they’re very good at is not being punished by the law or the cops. Sewer doesn’t deserve credit for that.
You’re right, in that it’s the complicity of the cops and judiciary in allowing these sort of things to happen. However I do think Nazi ringleaders in general have a good understanding of both that the law is this way and how to manipulate the legal system.
Like they dress in suits with a clean haircut and stuff when appearing in court and plead good character, they front the media well etc.
None of this would work if anyone did due diligence but they intuitively know they wont.
Having odious politics and being a slimey coward doesn’t mean he’s stupid.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell says he could 'become a terrorist' as far right rhetoric escalates and movement grows 1 week ago:
This guy is like the Nazi ringleader in aus. He is a cunning little thing, very good at walking the line without ever crossing it.
For example, when he recently led a gang in attacking some people filming a group of the shits hiking he himself was careful not to actually get hugely involved in taking their car keys and attacking them. Only getting 7 days in gaol.
Sewell was in contact with the Christchurch mosque shooter too.
If there was any justice in the world he’d be cut off from using the internet or running social groups, but those are penalties we only levy against people holding climate rallys or sharing films.
- Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell says he could 'become a terrorist' as far right rhetoric escalates and movement growswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Dutton is already testing Trump's campaign slogans 1 week ago:
“the Australian public” is 23 million people from different backgrounds, in different environments, facing different stresses.
There is no cohesive identity, just human drives. We are animals, often very gentle and nice animals, but we are animals. We carry the heritage of our ancestors. Fear and doubt, fear of the other, selfishness these are all drives we have and they are easy to play into. Of course it will work, trump isn’t a wizard, the rise of fascism is a systematic problem.
The question is will someone else use a more effective political strategy? Neoliberal politics largely hasn’t been able to because it is neoliberal ideologies which have lead to this world where people are noticing life get harder each year and the upper rungs of society become increasingly unattainable.
“be happy with what you have peasant, at least we won’t do purges” is just… deeply uninspiring.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
huh, this story is really old and of dubious origin but afaict the original websites are down and I can’t be bothered going into archives.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
It could be made up. Probably really.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
They’re probably studying metabolic syndromes on cognitive function.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
I am not sure if you’re being deliberately contrarian to protect cognitive dissonance, or just wildly ignorant of how studies are conducted.
In the most literal sense a study is made of a battery of experiments that are each run across a series of tests. This is also just “an experiment” colloquially since they’re all testing the same area. They do not take rats from say a maze solving study, then give them diabetes for a different study, then give them a brain tumor before putting them in the decapicone (a real product).
I have stolen lab rats marked for death, I know what I’m talking about.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
wholesome animal experimentation. So cute and wholesome how they keep them in shitty cages, feed them a bland diet, and kill them the moment the experiment is over.
What a nice story.
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 2 weeks ago:
incredibly based.
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 2 weeks ago:
It literally uses more ariable land to eat meat. Chickens, pigs they’re fed grain. Most cows are too, there isn’t enough pasture on the planet to meet the demand.
Most impoverished nations are largely plant based, but neither of us live there. we’re talking about why you, an Aussie aren’t vegan.
I’m sure if I came from a culture that was different, endured hardships(like starving to death) or even just viewed them differently, maybe I would too
It’s very strange to me to suggest that whether or not it is right or wrong depends on the culture you are raised in. This has troubling implications for other acts. DV is very common in Australia, is it less wrong to beat your wife here than in Germany?
Unless you have some way to rapidly switch billions of dollar of farming industry to purely plant based industries?
we are not talking about entire industries, we are talking about you right now. Unless you mean to say you take some sort of economic catagorical imperative as a way of deciding how to act?
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 2 weeks ago:
not it would make it ok if they were
Wait, would it be ok to farm dogs in your eyes? Like does the reason for their death matter? Food or fighting it’s all pleasure since it’s not healthy or cheap to eat meat, nor is it environmentally friendly.
You keep using the word humane, the dictionary definition of that word is: Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion
That obviously can’t be what you mean, as it is not compassionate, kind, or merciful to kill someone when they don’t need to die. What do you mean by it?
I’d be aghast if you were doing so recreationally
Isn’t eating meat recreational? It’s not healthy, necessary, or environmentally friendly. The only reason to do so is that it is pleasurable. I.e. it is a recreational activity. Unless you are an Inuit or something that depends on hunting to survive.
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 2 weeks ago:
But cows in feedlots necessarily die… I mean most fighting dogs don’t get chained to that eating fence. Or say broiler chickens, stuck in a shed and frequently having their own bones collapse under their growing weight. Even that aside, surely if I told you I intend to breed dogs, pamper them, then at 2 years old bolt gun them and repeat you’d be a little aghast? no?
You’re a bit all over the shop and I don’t want you to feel like I’m not listening to you. So what do you want to talk about of the following:
- environmental impact (whales are important to ecosystems)
- waste (it’s wasteful to kill whales)
- Quality of life/the repugnant conclusion
- what it means to be humane
- whether it is possible to eat meat without factory farming
Or if there is another issue you’d rather talk about?
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 2 weeks ago:
Well fair enough, if you think people should prioritise their own comfort over justice then at least you’re consistent. It is beyond my ability to convince you otherwise.
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 2 weeks ago:
What about some cost though? Like if someone’s friend is actively being transphobic you’d probably expect them to step in right?
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 2 weeks ago:
This seems like half an argument from nature, which is a bit odd. I mean I don’t see you arguing against using antibiotics despite most humans since recorded history not using them or whatever.
Tradition is a bad argument for anything. Either it is right or wrong to kill animals when we don’t need to. I’m sure you take a rather dim view of whaling because it is unnecessary, despite it being deeply entwined with many cultures and historically common. Or dog fighting or whatever.
Why is eating cows different to whaling, fighting dogs, or using elephants in circuses. If we don’t need to eat them it’s only for fun we do.
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 2 weeks ago:
Have you had a look at www.farmtransparency.org ? it’s real stuff going on right now. you don’t need meat replacements etc, beans and rice are the bulk of most plant based diets. Cheap as chips and healthy as.
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 2 weeks ago:
What do you think about people who sideline trans justice issues because it would cost them social standing or friends etc?
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